Heroic DS Adventures

[Melindice]

Not sure if any of you guys have raided heroic DS, but I somehow got into a PuG on my hunter (who is undergeared for it, as I discovered.) It was a rather hilarious sequence of wipes.

So, this priest friend of mine (who hasn't done H DS before) and I were LFG, hoping to get into an acceptable group and hopefully win an upgrade or two. Now, this priest has a pretty reasonable ilvl (399 I think,) which is probably why they let us in (for some reason they didn't think to look at me.) So we group up, summons go out, flasks are used and food is eaten. Normal, easy DS. We start clearing trash to Morchok, same as it always is. Then, I look at the chat and see "Raid Difficulty set to 10 player heroic." I whispered my friend, and our conversation was essentially,

Me: "Hey, am I going crazy or did they just put it on heroic?"
Him: "Yeah, I see that too. Do you know heroic?"
Me: "Nope, I barely know DS as ranged. Do you?"
Him: "I have a vague idea of it, but not really enough to form a strategy out of."
Me: "So what do we do? They don't sound like the type of people to explain."
Him: "I don't know. Maybe we should just wing it?"
Me: "In vent, I keep hearing "soak." Are they taking a bath or something?"
Him: "I'm not sure. Let's just pretend to know what's going on and hope for the best."

So we start the fight, and I'm just shooting as I always do, and he is throwing glitter at people as he does. Nothing really eventful happens for the first few seconds, and I started to slip into "Auto-kill" mode, but then the boss hit 90%. Here comes the split. Now, I'm not really sure what happened, but about 2 seconds after that, one of the tanks drops to around 6%, and there's damage flying everywhere. Somehow, a healer pulls some big numbers out of nowhere, and we're all somewhat alive. By some miracle, we get to the first blood phase. The raid leader had said to go toward the temple for this phase so the healers could AoE us, but apparently a few DPS didn't get that memo. So, they all end up standing in the Kool-Aid and dying. Now all that's left are 2 tanks, a healer (other one had gotten stomped on or something) and 2 DPS. Of course, there is no chance of us winning this time. We all scatter across the wastes of Dragonblight, hoping the big rock monsters won't eat us or whatever nasty things rock monsters do. Of course, rock monsters don't like it when mean raiders try to hurt them, so we all got squished rather violently. A short corpserun later, we're all back and ready to try again. And about 2 minutes later, there's another batch of raider corpses littering the ground. This goes on for an hour, and we still can't kill the boss. An executive decision is made to set it to normal for Morchok, as "it requires better communication, which a PuG lacks."

Now we go down to meet Warlord Zon'ozz. For whatever reason, the raid is set to heroic again, and again I whisper my friend.

Me: "So, wait. We couldn't do Morchok, but they think we can do this?"
Him: "Apparently. I hope you're good at ping pong."
Me: "I'm terrible at ping pong, this should go well."

The fight starts, and the tank doesn't seem to realize that the boss needs to face the ranged so the orb will float toward them. So the mage (who I later discovered was quite funny) and I have to run across the stomach of an Old God, trying to DPS and also hoping we don't die a horrible death. By some miracle (and maybe a Blink or two,) the mage manages to hit the ball. I relax, thinking we're saved. Nope. The ball shoots off at an awkward angle, missing the melee group by a long shot and plowing right into the wall. Now, for those who may not have done DS or have never had the orb go the wrong way, whenever it reaches the walls, it kills the whole raid. Not fun. Of course, not wanting to repeat the same Morchok wipefest, we switch to normal and blow through it.

We get to Yor'sahj, and, as is to be expected, the leader switches to heroic. The mage from earlier immediately starts chewing him out about how much time we've wasted dying on bosses that we cannot do, and how he is leading us to more wipes, yada yada yada. The whole rant was amusing in the extreme, making the excess amount of wipes almost worthwhile.

Anyway, moral of the story, make sure you know what you're getting in to before you're splattered all over the snow.

[Dasffion]

Why didn't you slap the RL?

Sounds like it was a frustrating and amusing time.

[Melindice]

[Steamboy]

Nothing really eventful happens for the first few seconds,

haha

[Maly]

Love it Rofl

[GinsengSamurai]

That's hilarious.

[Melindice]

More adventures!

So the guild I'm in, Mature Content, used to have some pretty skilled raiders, but pretty much everyone left for Diablo. Lately, we've been trying to get people together for a raid group, just so there's something to do.

Now, r3 (our raid leader now?) scheduled the event for 7 server. I logged in an hour early to grab mats for cauldrons and feasts, and to figure out if A, I actually posses the ability to tank, and B, to find people to fill the empty spots. I notice two guild members are in trade looking for a DS run, even though the guild one should happen in about an hour. I whispered one of them (coincidentally the same friend from the heroic run,) and ask him if the guild run is just too late for him or what, and he replies "No one showed." I was confused by his reply, as he couldn't say no one came to an event that hadn't happened yet. "Um, Shawn? The raid is in an hour."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean the raid happens in an hour, of course no one is here yet because that woul be insanely early."
"But Cato (another guildie) said no one showed."
Now Cato, while a nice person and a good tank, really isn't online much and probably doesn't know too much about current things in the guild. So I tell them that the raid hasn't happened and that people will show up.

So we're all waiting, I'm making flasks for people and they're BS'ing in vent. I finish making stuff for the healer, and go to trade him. He cancels the trade, for some unknown reason. I try again, he cancels and runs away. I whisper him, "Dude, hold still." He then starts saying in vent "some noob player is ti
trying to get gold from me, they keep opening trade." I tell him in guild chat, "Shawn, you're one 'm' short of being a Mormon. Hold still so I can give you these." He continues running away, and I keep trying to get his attention in chat. "SHAWN, LET ME GIVE YOU THE DAMN FLASKS OR I WILL COME TO YOUR HOUSE AND SMACK YOU." "Oh, sorry, Mel. I've been trying to get away from this guy who wants gold." >.>

People begin to log in, but we're still lacking a few DPS and a healer, so we grabbed some friends from Containment Protocol who say they know the fights. (And, ya know, being in a guild that does heroic kind of acts in their favor.)

Anyway, we get into the actual raid and everything is going fine. We breeze through Morchok (which should be sort of expected on reg.) We get to Zon'ozz, and ask if everyone knows this. Everyone says they do, so we get started. The ball spawns, and ranged takes care of it as they should. Melee bounces it, ranged, melee, ranged. Melee is told to get out so the ball hits the boss. I'm DPSing this, so I did what any person would do and got the hell out of the way. I turn to look at the boss, and I see the orb is flying towards the ranged. People in vent are yelling "melee out melee out!" but there's 2 melee still in; the ones from CP, who "know" the fights. We all wipe, and go back to try again. "Guys, when we say melee out, melee has to rub away from the boss so the orb can hit." "Yeah, we know." "Ok then." >.>

We get through the fight last time and go through Yor'sahj. (I love how my computer accepts that as a word.) Anyway, we get to Hagara, and of course there's always one person who gets hit by the ice wall, but we make it. Ultraxion, being possibly the easiest boss in there, goes down pretty fast. One of the hunters has to go, so we start trying to find a ranged. Metal appeared out of no where to fill the spot, and we start the gunship.

Now, for those who haven't done gunship, you have to stand in the purple swirls on the ground, otherwise the boat gets shot down. There are also little goblins who run into the ship's cabin, where they (in the words of Cowhealz) "*fudge* your *crap* up." Death knights can grip these to slow them down, giving the DPS more time. The thing is, you shouldn't grip them if you're standing near the cabin, but the other DK didn't understand that. So, we died. Again. And again. And again. And again. After that disgusting display of wiping, the raid was called for the night.

Today's moral of raiding; It's better to ask questions and learn rather than cause the death of 9 people.

[Melindice]

Continuing the DS of the previous post, the healer friend gathered a group to finish the raid. He asks me, and being the pushover I am, I go with him. Yeah, bad idea. We wiped for 3 hours. It was just so very bad.

Though there was this guy, Execuetion, who was irritatingly amusing. He kept saying "lust" "pop lust." We had neither a shaman nor mage, thus no lust or time warp. We said this to him, repeatedly. He kept asking for lust. We managed to down spine by some miracle of the WoW gods. We took a short break before attempting madness, during which I was looking to see if I would have competition for rolls. Execuetion says "If Gurthalak drops, I get it." My mental brakes screech, and I look him straight in the eyes (well, as close as you can get in game) and tell him, "No, sorry. I'm rolling too."
"I've been waiting 2 weeks for it."
"That's fiddily-damn-tastic, I'm still rolling."
"But I need it!"
A, this bun was rocking the raid finder version vs my 378, B, he was species for dual wielding, C, you don't just irritate an entire raid and expect epics.
"I don't care if you need it, I'm rolling too."
"You're a mean person."
"I'm not mean, you're just an idiot."

After that he shuts his mouth for a bit. Until we're on the first tentacle. We've been fighting for all of 5 seconds, and expecting te corruption to spawn. "DPS on tentacle is too slow." I flip open my recount window. High hunter DPS, DPS from a crazy warrior, a lock just ripping the boss' health down, followed by the tanks doing reasonable damage, and guess who is last? Execuetion.

[Steamboy]

His DPS was low. That's why he needed Gurthalak. Did it drop?

[Namaya]

More Heroic DS Adventures, Mel! They are amusing

[Melindice]

His DPS was low. That's why he needed Gurthalak. Did it drop?

Gear isn't always the fix to bad DPS, Steamy. Assuming a person is geared enough to do DS (at least 380 ilvl,) if they can't do at least 12k, they are under the expected standard. Why give a bad player a good weapon? Besides, his attitude would only be somewhat tolerable if he could actually do decent damage. Being beaten by a tank is frankly, quite pathetic. And no, it did not drop.

There will be more adventures, Amber. Sadly, I'm saved to DS on both characters for the week.

[Melindice]

This isn't about Heroic DS, but I figured it would be best to cinfine my rambling to one thread.

There are two world bosses for Pandaria, the Sha of Anger, and Salyis' Warband (Which is otherwise known as "Galleon," which is the gigantic mushan beast they ride.) The Sha of Anger spawns pretty much all of the time, and is a source for cheap entertainment, lots of QQing, and maybe some gear. Galleon spawns far less often, once or twice per week. He tends to drop better PvE gear.

Now, the drops from these guys come in little bags, like "<Such and such's bag of gold." Usually, you get around 30g for your troubles. However, there is a weekly quest which gives you 3 tokens that allow for a chance at extra loot, which is where I have gotten gear from these bosses.

I did Sha today, as a DPS because my tank gear isn't good enough for tanking yet. Unfortunately, I forgot that the extra rolls will try and get gear for your current spec, so I got stuck with DPS tier pants, which I will never use.

Galleon was just up on Suramar, so I joined a group to take him down. I somehow ended up in a group of 3, while there was another group of 40. Somehow, my group managed to get the tag, but the bigger group killed Galleon for us. The boss dies, and cue the 40 man group QQing because they didn't get the achievement. They saw that my group had gotten it, and began asking "OMG SCRUB GROUP WHY DID YOU GET IT" etc. I flew out of the zone to get away from them, but a good number of them followed me, spamming /rude and /spit. Quite an amusing bunch of apes.

I just noticed I have 1,462 mastery on my helm. Lovely.

[Steamboy]

I've never experienced this part of wow. They should have gotten there first if they wanted the achievement.